Epitaphs are words engraved on a personís tomb or in a plaque. These words
could have been written by people close to the dead or written by the person
before he or she dies. An epitaph speaks a lot about the person underneath the
tomb. People close to the dead person may choose an epitaph that contains the
words that describes that person or how they wish the soul of the person to rest
in peace. Poets are known to have epitaphs in a short poem.

In this section, find different memorable epitaphs found in the grave of
different personalities and see if the words inscribed as their epitaphs are
well deserved by these people.

~ Bonney, William H. (additional alias - Billy the Kid; real name - Henry
McCarty)
Truth and History.
21 Men.
The Boy Bandit King
He Died As He Lived
William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid"

~ Capone, Alphonse
My Jesus Mercy

~ Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Stop, Christian passer-by: Stop, child of God,
And read, with gentle breast. Beneath this sod
A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he--
O, lift one thought in prayer for S. T. C.--
That he who many a year with toil of breath
Found death in life, may here find life in death:
Mercy for praise--to be forgiven for fame--
He ask'd, and hoped through Christ. Do thou the same.

~ Copernicus, Nicolaus
STA SOL NE MOEARE
(Stand, Sun, move not)

~ Davis, Bette
She did it the hard way

~ Dempsey, Jack
A Gentle Man and a Gentleman

~ Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Steel True, Blade Straight

~ Dickinson, Emily
Called Back

~ Earp, Wyatt and Josephene
that nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love

~ Fields, W.C.
Here lies W.C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

~ Keats, John
This Grave
contains all that was Mortal
of a
Young English Poet
Who
on his Death Bed
in the Bitterness of his Heart
at the Malicious Power of his Enemies
Desired
these words to be engraven on his Tomb Stone
"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

~ London, Jack
The Stone the Builders Rejected

~ Lugosi, Bela
Beloved Father

~ Marx, Karl
Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only
interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

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